
đź‘‹ Oi, mga repapips, Brian Dys here! I love music, photography, and creative stuff like UX design and art. This is a place where I collect my thoughts and works. Apart all these, I’m Jaycelle’s better half and Bryce’s dad. 🥰
Our father arrives home once again–we picked him up at the airport one Monday morning.
As the car in front of mine overtook onwards, a weird-looking pedicab emerged in view–a block of text on bright red paint caught my eye enough for me to tailgate this cruising balut vendor.
A balut or balot is a fertilized duck embryo that is boiled and eaten in the shell. It is commonly sold as streetfood in the Philippines.
Source: Balut (egg) on Wikipedia
We see how funny and ingenious our fellow vendors could be (also seen ubiquitously on jeepney decorations).
The transcription:
R3S-Balutan
Fragile
“Distancia Amigo”
Loaded with balut eggs
Sorry po sa kaunting delay!
The English transcription:
R3S-Balutan
Fragile
Distance, my friend
Loaded with balut eggs
Sorry for the slight delay!
Here’s a photo of Wild River Disco taken on April 27, 2011.
Anti-human trafficking agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) have rescued 16 girls, four of them minors, in a popular Pasay City disco bar known for its lewd shows recently.
Tempo
What’s really efficient–getting stuck in traffic on a short route or going through the long intestinal insides of the city?
That yummy taste when you’ve got a buy 1 take 1 cheeseburger deal? Yes, it’s the same banana peel that gets a comedy laugh when you slip because of it.
Morning people notice this–shirtless men walking on the streets to buy gel or something and women carrying towels also walking on the streets.
I’ve learned to play the guitar practicing the song, “Line to Heaven” by Introvoys. It’s a very easy D-A-G-A said my cousin.
Remember that time when all you need is water from the tap? Then a corpse got stuck in one of Manila Water’s pipelines.
Once, I’ve used Ajax bar soap on my skin because I took a bath at the laundry area.
Just like roses, rice have come to us in different colors.
When we were kids, the best stage we’d really like balloons taken home by mom from parties was when they’re already hovering mid-air.
Some people, they do not learn the meaning of life–they realize it. I, on the other hand, realized the meaning of couch potato during my six-month stay in our house which turned into my parent’s house after graduation. I was being rooted to the couch sleeping at 4 AM and waking up for lunch.
I was told once to never trust anyone with the name Ricky or Randy.
It’s harder and harder to get up at six in the morning. It’s already cold minus the rainy weather.
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Where did these flowerpot decorations come from?
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The rain fell big drops that could hurt heads. It’s a relief when you’re already inside a vehicle unlike when you’re still waiting to commute by the roadside wearing a cotton jacket and holding an umbrella for one.
The company umbrella Christmas giveaway has a purpose after all.
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In some building vicinities they put spikes around their flowerpots or anywhere people could sit and take a nap all day.
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I’m travelling back in time when a security guard catches someone testing different variants of deodorants before going to work. He waits for the mall to open at ten, walks by the cologne section and purposely catches the attention of a salesman to let him try that new Polo scent.